Wanli 1592

Chapter 500 The Exploding Firearm

It seemed that he was worried that Wang Shiyang wouldn't believe what he said, so Mr. Qian handed over a set of winter clothes that he had just issued yesterday.

Wang Shiyang took the winter coat over, weighed it, and knew what it was.

But he still had a chance, so he took off his military uniform, put on this military uniform, opened the curtain, and a gust of cold wind blew, Old Wang was directly blown back several steps and retracted into the military tent.

Embarrassing, embarrassing, very embarrassing.

"Bring a few more sets."

Lao Wang bit the bullet and gave the order, so Mr. Qian had no choice but to get some more sets of soldier uniforms. Lao Wang put on three of them and wrapped them tightly so that he could barely stand the wind and cold outside.

"Military uniforms will be distributed three times, and [-] sets will be distributed first to the most elite [-] troops. Let them go to Yanmen Pass and Hepingxing Pass to support them first. The remaining governors will naturally find a way!"

Wang Shiyang had no choice but to make an emergency like this, and the attendant around him wanted to go back to deal with it immediately, so Mr. Qian stopped the attendant.

Looking at Wang Shiyang's puzzled eyes, Mr. Qian bit the bullet and said: "Mr. Supervisor, I can barely wear three pieces of clothes, but I can't wear three pairs of shoes. I'm running outside with these shoes. I'm not cold anymore, but my feet are going to be cold." If you are frozen and your feet are frozen, you will not be able to run at all. If it gets colder, if you get frostbite, it will be over."

Wang Shiyang's expression turned even worse.

"Distribute some temporarily unused cloth from the treasury, and ask the soldiers to wrap their feet in the cloth to keep them warm. Let's deal with it first, and there is no delay in supporting the two levels."

Mr. Qian sighed and agreed.

After an extra two hours of tossing, only [-] bloated soldiers outside the city of Taiyuan slowly marched towards Yanmen Pass and Hepingxing Pass. Wang Shiyang rode on a horse and watched the staggering steps of these soldiers, feeling deeply worried. Suddenly, a gust of cold wind blew, and it hurt his hand holding the rein, and he quickly shrank into the brocade robe to keep warm.

Soldiers don't have anything to keep their hands warm. If it's too cold to hold weapons, how can they fight?
Wang Shiyang had no choice but to pray to God for mercy so that the weather would not get colder. At the same time, he also hoped that the imperial court would come to help as soon as possible, with food and enough warm clothes.

The only thing that made him happy was that it wasn’t raining, and it was even dry. In this case, it didn’t matter whether the soldiers lit a fire or used firearms. Yanmen Pass and Pingxing Pass had a lot of firearms and equipment, and there were many cannons on the pass. With these firearms, those Mongols should be stopped for a while.

Wang Shiyang thought so, but Wei Yunzhen didn't think so. At this moment, in the arsenal of Yanmenguan City, Wei Yunzhen looked at a row of seventeen blasted blunderbusses in front of him, and seventeen blasted blunderbusses. The gun made the seriously injured soldier look extremely ugly.

"Why did these guns explode as soon as they were used? Didn't you give me any explanation?! Seventeen soldiers didn't die in the hands of the Mongols, but were killed by our own guns! How did this happen?" What's going on?!"

Wei Yunzhen stared fixedly at the arsenal officials who were kneeling down. Looking at these arsenal officials with panicked faces, the killing intent in her heart could hardly be restrained.

"Futai! Futai Mingjian! These birdcracks were sent to the warehouse by the Ministry of Industry, and we have never tampered with them since they were put in the warehouse! These birdcracks are not popular in the Northland at all, and the soldiers don't like them." Useful, and the quality is so poor, even if I want to fill my pockets, I can't sell it at a price, Futai! Futai Mingjian!"

The head of the arsenal knelt in front of Wei Yunzhen, his face was smeared with snot and tears, and he was very disgusted.

"The quality is poor? This governor has been in charge of Shanxi for four years, why have you never reported it?!"

Wei Yunzhen cursed loudly, what he hated the most were these bastards who usually didn't say anything, but only lost their chains when they needed to use them in an emergency. The existence of these lazy government officials caught him off guard every time, and he was shot while lying down, this time it was the same!
"Futai Mingjian! These firearms have been like this since the Jiajing period. I have been in the arsenal for 12 years. It is a miracle that more than half of the firearms such as bird guns sent every year are good. Basically, only [-]% are good. At the beginning, the officials also reported from time to time. , but there was no news, after that, the subordinate officials did not continue to report."

The head of the arsenal is a clerk with little fame and no promotion. Under such circumstances, there is no news of a reply, so he naturally becomes lazy and inactive, and no longer continues to report to his superiors, because he knows very well that even if he responds , and there is no result.

Wei Yunzhen took a deep breath and forcibly suppressed the furious mood.

"Didn't any troops use firearms during the drills in the past? When Benfu ordered the military exercises, no troops used firearms?"

"Yes, but very few. The wind in the north is strong, and the Mongolian cavalry is fast. It is difficult to release the bird gun, and it is not easy to operate. There is no basis for it and the generals like to use it. Few generals have firearms. At most, some artillery , but the artillery often explodes, and now soldiers would rather use bows and crossbows than firearms."

"Why have you never heard of the news of the explosion?"

"Because since the Jiajing period, the explosion of firearms has been the norm, and it is not unusual at all, so it has not been reported, because everyone is used to it."

Wei Yunzhen rubbed her temples, feeling extremely irritable.

He waved his hand and asked his subordinates to take the seventeen seriously injured soldiers out for treatment. He walked around the arsenal a few times and saw some shocking firearms.

At that touch, the barrel of the gun broke. If you take a closer look, you can see that it is rusty and ugly. Some barrels are crudely made, and the slits are not round. Some are oval, and even square. It can't be used at all, and it's no wonder that the firearms often explode.

The firearms issued by the imperial court were shoddy to such an extent, and he, the governor, never cared about it for four years. This has to be said to be his own great dereliction of duty.

Throwing a bird gun on the ground, the bird gun immediately shattered into three pieces.

Right now the Mongols are attacking the city very fiercely, and there are not enough arrows in the arsenal. I thought of using firearms to resist for a while. After all, the power of gunpowder is still very strong. Wei Yunzhen has heard the news that Xiao Ruxun used firearms to defeat Japanese pirates in North Korea, so he has changed his mind about firearms , but never thought that this firearm would disappoint him so much.

"Are there any firearms available at the moment?"

"Yes, but not much."

"Take it all out, use it first!"

"promise!"

The arsenal officials immediately began to arrange.

Outside Guancheng, deafening explosions could be heard endlessly. Wei Yunzhen looked at the city wall of Guancheng not far away, and looked at the place where the killing sound shook the sky, feeling extremely worried.

Suddenly, a big fireball exploded on the Guancheng, Wei Yunzhen was shocked.

"That is how the matter?!"

The person he sent to check the news ran back with another soldier with a dark face before he had gone far. After arriving, he hurriedly said: "Futai! There is a cannon on the city that exploded, detonating three barrels around it. Gunpowder, part of the city wall was damaged, and the soldiers were seriously injured!"

hateful!

Wei Yunzhen's complexion changed, and she immediately got on her horse and rushed towards Guancheng.

(End of this chapter)